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(book)will honeycuttwilliam jameswittgensteinworkwritingEPS BlogThis is the blog area for the Evangelical Philosophical Society and its journal, Philosophia Christi.http://blog.epsociety.org/noreply@blogger.com (Lenny Esposito)Blogger474125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-2975239104709338299Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:19:00 +00002019-02-15T17:50:11.759-08:0020:2adam lloyd johnsonepistemologyerik wielenbergethicsgodless moral realismmark murphymetaethicsmoral knowledgeontology of knowledgeRobust Ethics (book)tyler mcnabbwilliam lane craigPhilosophia Christi Discusses Erik Wielenberg’s "Robust Ethics"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="64" data-original-width="607" height="41" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CJcXeRiVCD0/XGc0IRd3ukI/AAAAAAAAAS0/e9bFPytPG4I9Oko5-aK5HGSz5a-NdU0MACLcBGAs/s400/unnamed-3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/journal?openform&amp;journal=pdc_pc" target="_blank">Enjoy digital-only access to the journal!</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Robust-Ethics-Metaphysics-Epistemology-Normative-dp-0198812000/dp/0198812000/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=1550269811&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=1d4f61c08eb324cee1eb87bbc7c33887&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0198812000&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0198812000" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />The Winter 2018 issue leads with an important symposium that evaluates the "Godless Normative Realism" thesis of Erik Wielenberg.<br /><br />Adam Lloyd Johnson: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0331_0332&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"Introduction to the American Academy of Religion Panel Forum on Erik Wielenberg’s Robust Ethics"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">Erik Wielenberg is the most important contemporary critic of theistic metaethics. Wielenberg maintains that God is unnecessary for objective morality because moral truths exist as brute facts of the universe that have no, and need no, foundation. At times his description of these brute facts make them sound like abstract objects or Platonic forms. At the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting in Boston in November of 2017, we organized an Evangelical Philosophical Society panel to discuss Erik Wielenberg’s book <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2GtJING" target="_blank">Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism</a></i>. All five papers presented there are included in this journal.&nbsp;</div></blockquote>William Lane Craig: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0333_0338&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"Erik Wielenberg’s Metaphysics of Morals"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">Focusing on Erik Wielenberg’s metaphysic of morals, I argue that his moral Platonism is, given the presumption against the existence of abstract objects, unmotivated. Moreover, Godless Normative Realism is implausible in light of the mysterious causal relations said to obtain between concrete objects and moral abstracta. His appeals to theism in order to motivate such causal connections is nugatory. If Wielenberg walks back his moral Platonism, then his metaphysics of morals collapses and Godless Normative Realism becomes explanatorily vacuous.&nbsp;</div></blockquote>Tyler Dalton McNabb: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0339_0346&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"Wile E. Coyote and the Craggy Rocks Below - The Perils of Godless Ethics"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">William Lane Craig has defended the following two contentions: (1) If theism is true, we have a sound foundation for morality, and, (2) If theism is false, we do not have a sound foundation for morality. Erik Wielenberg rejects (2). Specifically, Wielenberg argues that naturalists have resources to make sense of objective moral values, moral duties, and moral knowledge. In response to Wielenberg, I defend Craig’s second contention by arguing that Wielenberg’s theory fails to robustly capture our moral phenomenology as well as make intelligible robust moral knowledge.&nbsp;</div></blockquote>Mark C. Murphy: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0347_0355&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"No Creaturely Intrinsic Value"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">In <i>Robust Ethics</i>, Erik Wielenberg criticizes all theistic ethical theories that explain creaturely value in terms of God on the basis that all such formulations of theistic ethics are committed to the denial of the existence of creaturely intrinsic value. Granting Wielenberg’s claim that such theistic theories are committed to the denial of creaturely intrinsic value, this article considers whether theists should take such a denial to be an objectionable commitment of their views. I argue that theists should deny the existence of creaturely intrinsic value, and that such a denial is not an objectionable commitment of theism.&nbsp;</div></blockquote>Adam Lloyd Johnson: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0357_0363&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"Fortifying the Petard - A Response to One of Erik Wielenberg’s Criticisms of the Divine Command Theory"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">Erik Wielenberg argued that William Lane Craig’s attack against nontheistic ethical models is detrimental to Craig’s Divine Command Theory (DCT) as follows: Craig claims it is unacceptable for ethical models to include logically necessary connections without providing an explanation of why such connections hold. Yet Craig posits certain logically necessary connections without providing an explanation of them. Wielenberg concluded that “Craig is hoisted by his own petard.” In this paper I respond to Wielenberg’s criticism by clarifying, and elaborating on, the DCT. I will attempt to provide a preliminary explanation for the logically necessary connections included in the DCT.&nbsp;</div></blockquote>Erik J. Wielenberg: <a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0365_0375&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"Reply to Craig, Murphy, McNabb, and Johnson"</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">In <i>Robust Ethics</i>, I defend a nontheistic version of moral realism according to which moral properties are sui generis, not reducible to other kinds of properties (e.g., natural properties or supernatural properties) and objective morality requires no foundation external to itself. I seek to provide a plausible account of the metaphysics and epistemology of the robust brand of moral realism I favor that draws on both analytic philosophy and contemporary empirical moral psychology. In this paper, I respond to some objections to my view advanced by William Craig, Mark Murphy, Tyler McNabb, and Adam Johnson.</div></blockquote><i>For as low as $25 a year,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.donatesecure.net/eps/" target="_blank">sign-up</a> today to be an EPS member (includes print copies of the journal, access to annual and regional meetings, opportunities to present conference papers, and more!).&nbsp;</i><br /><b><br /></b><b>Want to receive a digital only version of <i>Philosophia Christi</i>? Special EPS member and non-member <a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/pc" target="_blank">pricing and access</a> is now available for individuals via the Philosophy Documentation Center, with over <a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=pc&amp;fq=pc%2FYear%2F" target="_blank">900 pieces</a> of content to browse and search!</b><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/oa3Cunx6IKI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/oa3Cunx6IKI/philosophia-christi-discusses-erik.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2019/02/philosophia-christi-discusses-erik.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-7540200399320091527Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:00:00 +00002019-02-15T17:20:11.041-08:0020:2abductive anthropological argumentarguments for the existence of Godclifford williamsexistentialimago Deijonathan mark threlfallpascalWinter 2018 issue of Philosophia Christi: Pascal's "Abductive Anthropological Argument" In the <a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=pc&amp;fq=pc%2FVolume%2F8980%7C20%2F8998%7CIssue%3A%202%2F" target="_blank">Winter 2018</a> issue of <i>Philosophia Christi,&nbsp;</i><a href="https://jonathanthrelfall.com/about/" target="_blank">Jonathan Mark Threlfall'</a>s lead article addresses&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=pc_2018_0020_0002_0379_0400&amp;file_type=pdf" target="_blank">"The <i>imago Dei</i> and Blaise Pascal’s Abductive Anthropological Argument."</a>&nbsp;Jonathan is Pastor of Preaching and Teaching at <a href="https://tbcnh.org/our-leadership/" target="_blank">Trinity Baptist Church</a> in Concord, New Hampshire.<br /><br />Here's the abstract from the article:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Blaise Pascal argued abductively for Christianity by presenting Christian anthropology as the best explanation for the existential paradoxes of human greatness and wretchedness. Surprisingly, however, the doctrine of the imago Dei never surfaces in his <i>Pensées</i>. I argue that considerations arising from the doctrine of the imago Dei strengthen Pascal’s abductive argument by providing more details for and encompassing more instances of humans’ paradoxical duality. Specifically, the <i>imago Dei</i> helps explain the existential paradoxes of happiness and misery, certainty and uncertainty, and human greatness and smallness within the cosmos. Further, its explanatory scope encompasses perplexing behavior and beliefs, including Freud’s Todestriebe, false altruism, conflicting beliefs about the divine, and our search for self-knowledge.</blockquote>Readers may also be interested in the special issue of <i>Philosophia Christi </i>on <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=195" target="_blank">"Ramified Natural Theological"</a> and&nbsp;Clifford Williams' book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830838996/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=evangephiloss-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0830838996&amp;adid=1NTYNV05WB0ZWFAC9XQ7&amp;" target="_blank">Existential Reasons for Belief in God</a></i>&nbsp;and his <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=135" target="_blank">interview</a> at the EPS website.<br /><br /><i>For as low as $25 a year,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.donatesecure.net/eps/" target="_blank">sign-up</a>&nbsp;today to be an EPS member (includes print copies of the journal, access to annual and regional meetings, opportunities to present conference papers, and more!).&nbsp;</i><br /><b><br /></b><b>Want to receive a digital only version of&nbsp;<i>Philosophia Christi</i>? Special EPS member and non-member&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/pc" target="_blank">pricing and access</a>&nbsp;is now available for individuals via the Philosophy Documentation Center, with over&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=pc&amp;fq=pc%2FYear%2F" target="_blank">900 pieces</a>&nbsp;of content to browse and search!</b><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/c6PvMiDYihA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/c6PvMiDYihA/winter-2018-issue-of-philosophia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2019/02/winter-2018-issue-of-philosophia.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-5537656984921848159Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:06:00 +00002019-01-29T06:21:05.083-08:00and Christian Virtue Theory (book)featured bookshumilitykent dunningtonmike austinmoral formationmoral knowledgePrideross inmanvirtuevirtue ethicsvirtuesHumility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Humility-Christian-Studies-Analytic-Theology/dp/0198818394/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=b757c2e2e359bfe7b7de7e868b128d7a&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0198818394&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0198818394" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Oxford University Press published <a href="https://amzn.to/2StRc5s"><i>Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory</i></a> by Kent Dunnington. <a href="https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/kent-dunnington">Dunnington</a> is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Biola University.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Humility, Pride and Christian Virtue Theory</i>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory</i> proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era-particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether. Dunnington demonstrates how such a radical view need not give rise to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity. This study argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life.</blockquote>Enjoy this 2015 presentation by Kent for the "Intellectual Humility Capstone Conference":<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/maBeT8aktwI" width="460"></iframe> For more on this topic, see EPS President, <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=106" target="_blank">Mike Austin's</a> latest <a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/humility-and-human-flourishing-study-in.html" target="_blank">book</a> and author <a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/interview-with-michael-austin-on.html" target="_blank">interview</a>, along with <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=164" target="_blank">Ross Inman's</a> (<i>Philosophia Christi</i> Editor) 2017 paper, <span id="goog_1371471998"></span><a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=390" target="_blank">"On the Moral and Spiritual Contours of the Philosophical Life."<span id="goog_1371471999"></span></a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/yatd_2ilBrA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/yatd_2ilBrA/humility-pride-and-christian-virtue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2019/01/humility-pride-and-christian-virtue.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-1280371753308206913Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:21:00 +00002019-01-29T06:32:50.290-08:00A Vindication of Politics (book)amy gutmannAristotleBurkecommon goodfeatured bookshuman dignityhuman flourishingjohn finnismatthew d. wrightpolitical philosophypolitical powerpoliticsA Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vindication-Politics-Flourishing-American-Political/dp/0700627553/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545530032&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Matthew+d.+wright&amp;&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=e6002f374376630b6fcd351371398076&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0700627553&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0700627553" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2019, University of Kansas Press will publish <a href="https://amzn.to/2SoSfni"><i>A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing</i></a>, in the American Political Thought series, by <a href="http://academics.biola.edu/torrey/about/people/faculty/matthew-wright/">Matthew D. Wright.</a> Wright is associate professor of government in the Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, La Mirada, California.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>A Vindication of Politics:&nbsp;</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Is politics strictly a means to an end—something that serves only the interests of individuals and the various associations of civil society such as families and charities? Or is a society’s political common good an end in itself, an essential component of full human flourishing? Responding to recent influential arguments for the instrumentality of the political common good, Matthew D. Wright’s <i>A Vindication of Politics </i>addresses a lacuna in natural law political theory by foregrounding the significance of political culture. Rather than an activity defined by law and government, politics emerges in this account as a cultural enterprise that connects generations and ennobles our common life. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The instrumentalist argument, in Wright’s view, does not give a plausible account of, among other things, the value of patriotism—of the way Americans revere the Founders, for instance, or love the Declaration of Independence, or idolize Abraham Lincoln. Such political affections cannot be explained by an instrumental common good. Loyalty to one’s country is not like a commitment to a telephone company. As nasty as politics can be, we hope for more from it than the <i>quid pro quo</i> of a business transaction. To arrive at an adequate theoretical account of why that is, Wright brings historical theory from Aristotle to Burke into conversation with contemporary theorists from John Finnis to Amy Gutmann. In <i>A Vindication of Politics</i> he develops a case for the intrinsic value of politics in a way that underwrites a healthy patriotism—and strongly suggests that the political common good is a critical part of what it means to be fully human. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The book offers new insight into the nature of the political common good and human sociability as well as their importance for making sense of the fundamental questions of American constitutional identity, principles, and aspirations.</blockquote></div><br />Update: Enjoy this <a href="http://universitypressblog.dept.ku.edu/uncategorized/matthew-d-wright-vindication-of-politics-author-qa/" target="_blank">interview</a> with Wright for the blog of the University of Kansas Press.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/Iq1zRVLyd1o" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/Iq1zRVLyd1o/a-vindication-of-politics-on-common.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2019/01/a-vindication-of-politics-on-common.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-5354603988018538266Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:22:00 +00002019-01-22T11:58:15.930-08:00analytic theologyinterviewLarry Hurtadolinda zagzebskinicholas wolterstorffphilosophical theologyphilosophy of languagephilosophy of religionstephanie nordbywilliam p. alstonInterview with Stephanie Nicole Nordby on 'Divine Predication'<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4p5AOXoq66o/XDtzdvz_0-I/AAAAAAAAASY/NQMAVGsbEzAcWZYy5aYMJkVGSdpDUjezACLcBGAs/s1600/19400228_10103590595504713_7225234966110783786_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4p5AOXoq66o/XDtzdvz_0-I/AAAAAAAAASY/NQMAVGsbEzAcWZYy5aYMJkVGSdpDUjezACLcBGAs/s200/19400228_10103590595504713_7225234966110783786_o.jpg" width="160" /></a>At the November EPS national annual conference in Denver, Colorado, <a href="http://logos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stephanie-nordby/" target="_blank">Stephanie Nicole Nordby</a> was awarded 'best paper' for the 2018 EPS Graduate Student Prize. The prized paper, "Divine Predication, Direct Reference, and the doctrines of classical theism," was also presented, in part, at the annual conference.<br /><br />Currently, Stephanie is a scholar with the <a href="https://logos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Logos Institute</a>, in which she is pursuing a project that aims to "articulate a plausible way of understanding descriptions of God in Scripture that integrates recent work in biblical studies, theology, and philosophy of language." With <a href="https://jonathanrutledge.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jonathan Rutledge</a>, she is also co-host of <i>Pogos</i>, the podcast of the Logos Institute [<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-coakley-on-analytic-exegetical-theology/id1344924128?i=1000401519368&amp;mt=2" target="_blank">iTunes</a>; <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-931091141" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a>], and she is the lead editor for the Institute's blog, <a href="http://blogos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/">BLogos</a>.<br /><br />Enjoy the following interview with Stephanie, both as a snapshot into her overall project and as a glimpse into her sense of calling with her scholarship.<br /><br /><b>You are interested in philosophy of religion, philosophy of language and issues of analytic and exegetical theology. How did you become interested in those areas as a Christian?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I’ve always been interested in big questions, even as a child. It wasn’t until I met my spouse, Kevin, that I began to see the value of analytic philosophy. Kevin had majored in philosophy at Chapel Hill, and it became obvious to me that his training as a philosopher contributed to his ability to think critically about things that mattered to me as a Christian: how to reason about God, interpret Scripture, and think theologically. As a result, I decided that I wanted to be trained in philosophy before I pursued my first passion, biblical interpretation. As it turned out, I fell in love with philosophy, too, along the way. The interests you mentioned are a natural marriage for me: Philosophy of religion is a field in which scholars consider what reason can tell us about God; philosophy of language looks at the relationship between language and what we know and what exists; and analytic and exegetical theology is the application of analytic philosophy and biblical exegesis to theology.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>With your studies at the Logos Institute, what are the core issues you are trying to address with your research and writing?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Right now I am looking at a particularly interesting movement in New Testament studies, the “Early High Christology Movement.” Scholars like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001I9N9L4?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=283155&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=12&amp;sort=date-desc-rank&amp;page=1&amp;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader" target="_blank">Richard Bauckham</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001HOLKN4?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=283155&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=12&amp;sort=date-desc-rank&amp;page=1&amp;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader" target="_blank">Larry Hurtado</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001H6NEG8?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=283155&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=12&amp;sort=date-desc-rank&amp;page=1&amp;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader" target="_blank">N.T. Wright</a> (just to name a few) made significant contributions to how we interpret the beliefs of early Christians and the authors of the New Testament. Importantly, they contend (against many in the academy) that many of the early witnesses testify to belief in a divine Jesus. However, the way in which these Christological beliefs are articulated in the early texts is significantly different (at least, superficially) from many of the Christological claims generated by the Church Fathers and historical theology. My work tries to tease out the philosophical and theological dimensions of this early high Christology in order to get a better handle on how we can best understand the claims and beliefs in the earliest witnesses to the divine Christ.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>What is the theory of divine predications and its philosophy of language that you seek to advance?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I subscribe to a univocal theory of divine predications, an extremely unpopular view among philosophers and theologians. (Although I have some excellent bedfellows like John Duns Scotus!) That is, I hold that at least some of the words we use to describe God apply to him directly, and not only by means of analogy or metaphor. Similar to philosophers like William Alston and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001H6GRO4?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=283155&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=12&amp;sort=date-desc-rank&amp;page=1&amp;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader" target="_blank">Paul Helm</a>, I believe that a Kripkean theory of direct reference can help us understand how our finite, human capacity for language can enable us to univocally apply predicates to a holy God. What makes my view unique is the way in which it relies on religious experience and ordinary accounts of how we speak about things we don’t understand. An important aspect of my view is that theological language is actually not that different from our language about other real phenomena that we don’t fully understand, like the frontiers of science.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>What do you see are the benefits and challenges to your view?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">One of the biggest challenges to my view is that it forces you to take religious experience extremely seriously. The evidential merit of religious experience has faced some major challenges in the last century, and there are many philosophers and theologians who think that religious experience is either empirically useless, or else something that cannot generate meaningful speech due to the underlying epistemic limitations of religious experience. This is a challenge I’m willing to take on, though, because I think a theistic realist must take religious experience seriously. I think my view has several benefits. (Of course—that is why I’m attracted to it!) For one, it sidesteps a host of problems related to analogical predication, including apophaticism. Second, it shows how we can engage in meaningful theological speech while holding to many key doctrines of the Christian faith, such as belief in God’s transcendence and holiness. Third, I think it reflects much of how the Scriptures and early church seemed to think and talk about Jesus and God in that it treats God like he is available to human perception and speech acts, while also affirming his otherness.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>How do accounts of first-person vs. second-person vs. third-person knowledge figure into your theory?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">In one sense, first-person knowledge (or, to avoid some of the technicalities that can come with terms like ‘knowledge’ in epistemology, it might be better to speak about experience or perception) is very important for my theory. That is because (as I mentioned above) I take religious experience to be very important when it comes to the metaphysical grounding of the words we use, especially when it comes to referring to and naming God. However, as I mention in my EPS paper, the way in which we arrive at our understanding about God and the world he created is through narrative. The Scriptures, for example, often make use of stories instead of more formal theological propositions to communicate ideas about God. Linda Zagzebski points out that some objects of human experience, like the moral features of the universe, seem to be more readily understood or described when exemplified in story, and Eleonore Stump makes an argument that there is something called “second-personal knowledge” that is conveyed through narrative. I combine these positions to argue that narrative opens the door to knowledge of things that cannot necessarily be defined, or at the very least, defined in full; as a result, we can engage in meaningful speech about God’s holiness, transcendence, etc.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>How have you found the works of William Alston, Eleonore Stump and Linda Zagzebski to be significant to your philosophy and theology interests?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">These three philosophers (and I would add Nicholas Wolterstorff as well) have been incredibly influential to my work. <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/blog/labels/william%20p.%20alston.asp" target="_blank">William Alston</a> is best known in philosophy of religion circles, perhaps, for his work on religious experience; however, I’ve found his work on religious language (most of which can be found in the collection of essays <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2V2Fv7y" target="_blank">Divine Nature and Human Language</a></i>) to be the most interesting of his work. While I disagree with his account of concepts, I think his work on reference was groundbreaking, especially in light of the theological climate at the time it was published. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/stumpep/" target="_blank">Eleonore Stump</a> is brilliant on so many fronts, but perhaps what I most appreciate about her work is the depth of her knowledge of Scripture and the sensitivity with which she approaches the complexities of religious texts. This can be difficult to find among analytic philosophers, but Stump never fails to bring fresh perspective, such as the one I mentioned in your prior question about second person knowledge, to her treatment of the Bible. <a href="https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/nicholas-wolterstorff" target="_blank">Nicholas Wolterstorff</a> is another major influence; <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2CwlC1D" target="_blank">Divine Discourse</a></i> is the first book I recommend to colleagues interested in the philosophy of Scripture. <a href="http://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/linda-zagzebski" target="_blank">Linda Zagzebski</a>, of course, is my most significant influence, as I had the good fortune to study under her supervision for my PhD in philosophy. Linda’s recent <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Rbq1iE" target="_blank">Exemplarist Virtue Theory</a></i> is a magnum opus, in my view; in it, she deftly combines insights from ethics, metaphysics, and social sciences to contribute a truly original virtue theory. However, it was her earlier work, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2CvdU7C" target="_blank">Divine Motivation Theory</a></i>, that originally stimulated my thinking about religious language. In it, Zagzebski observes that the <i>Imitatio Christ</i>i is underrepresented in Christian ethical traditions, and she argues for a theory of ethics that begins with considering Jesus as the divine exemplar of perfect moral features. This triggered my thinking about how we perceive, understand, and talk about Jesus’s divine features. Of course, her work on direct reference had a very influential role as well. Presently, I am lucky enough to be supervised by <a href="https://www.fuller.edu/faculty/oliver-crisp/" target="_blank">Oliver Crisp</a> as I complete my second PhD in theology. I had long admired Crisp while studying philosophy, as he is a capable philosopher in addition to being a trained theologian, so his work is useful to me as a model of how to combine my analytic sensibilities with my theological project. More recently, though, I’ve been gaining an appreciation for how Crisp is a key voice for a sophisticated and traditioned Protestant theology: He manages to articulate profound reflection on theology that is accessible to the 21st century church, while still finding and preserving the best insights from the Christian tradition.&nbsp;</blockquote><b>Given your interests and understanding of the relevant literature, what do you recommend for future work, especially at the intersection of philosophical theology and how we read scripture and communicate about how we encounter God?&nbsp;</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I would like to see more philosophers and theologians engage with questions about the canon and interpretation of Scripture. There was a series of excellent works at the recent turn of the century by Richard Swinburne, Nicholas Wolterstorff, William J. Abraham, Paul Helm and Eleonore Stump, among others. These works, though, far from exhaust the issues that should be of interest to Christians. There is much more to be said about the authority of and objections to the canon, the meaning and nature of inspiration, and the process of biblical interpretation. Wolterstorff especially raises a host of questions about what exactly constitutes God’s speech in <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2CwlC1D" target="_blank">Divine Discourse</a></i>. His arguments about appropriated speech could launch a thousand books about divine speech and speech in general! I am also very excited about the resurgence of interest in religious experience in philosophy, but I think there is more work to be done in theology and philosophy in this area. Importantly, I think that evidentialist critiques of religious experience should be reconsidered, and I’d like to see more philosophers and theologians draw on some of the interesting work on models and epistemology in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind/cognitive science.</blockquote><b>To enjoy more work on philosophy of religion issues, become a subscriber to the journal,&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.epsociety.org/philchristi/current-issue.asp" target="_blank">Philosophia Christi</a>,&nbsp;</i>or become a member of the <a href="https://www.donatesecure.net/eps/?did=1&amp;aid=8000022" target="_blank">Evangelical Philosophical Society</a> [includes annual print subscription to the journal], along with many <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/" target="_blank">FREE articles</a> at the EPS website.</b><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/bumDhAFMcWQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/bumDhAFMcWQ/interview-with-stephanie-nicole-nordby.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/12/interview-with-stephanie-nicole-nordby.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-7231138841744579212Thu, 20 Dec 2018 02:46:00 +00002018-12-23T18:49:29.637-08:00atonementAtonement (book)christologyeleonore stumpfeatured bookswilliam lane craigEleonore Stump on the "Atonement" and William Lane Craig's Reply to Stump <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Oxford-Studies-Analytic-Theology/dp/0198813864/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1541270673&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=atonement+eleonore+stump&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=1b6c1e2008b23c17a6000082cd898433&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0198813864&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0198813864" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Oxford University Press will publish <a href="https://amzn.to/2yOINlc" target="_blank"><i>Atonement</i></a> by Eleonore Stump, as part of their Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology series. <a href="https://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/philos/site/people/faculty/Stump/" target="_blank">Eleonore Stump</a> is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St Andrews, and a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Atonement</i>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">The doctrine of the atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries of reflection, highly diverse interpretations of the doctrine have been proposed. In the context of this history of interpretation, Eleonore Stump considers the doctrine afresh with philosophical care. Whatever exactly the atonement is, it is supposed to include a solution to the problems of the human condition, especially its guilt and shame. Stump canvasses the major interpretations of the doctrine that attempt to explain this solution and argues that all of them have serious shortcomings. In their place, she argues for an interpretation that is both novel and yet traditional and that has significant advantages over other interpretations, including Anselm's well-known account of the doctrine. In the process, she also discusses love, union, guilt, shame, forgiveness, retribution, punishment, shared attention, mind-reading, empathy, and various other issues in moral psychology and ethics.</blockquote></div>Enjoy this interview with Stump about her book:<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQwQNH9DfNg" width="460"></iframe><br />Here's a multi-part series of clips from Stump where she articulates her view of the atonement <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wOXp5Y2-IBI" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pbopi9yq_F4" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/USXmWpQM8ys" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cisrEcNc3bQ" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yjwkGw-VSCI" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qhZEi1vchH0" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5sIFRNL8mo" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYMWBxgzzK0" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eldoJ0tiw84" width="460"></iframe><br />See also William Lane Craig's critique of Stump's critique of "penal substitutionary atonement theories"<br />&nbsp; <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1FylkutYePk" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/aDIFeur6TQk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/aDIFeur6TQk/eleonore-stump-on-atonement-and-william.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/12/eleonore-stump-on-atonement-and-william.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-4030093535993652183Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:02:00 +00002018-12-23T19:09:00.596-08:00calvinismethicsevilevolutionExplaining Evil (book)featured bookslibertarian freedommoral realismpaul franksproblem of evilPaul Franks on "Explaining Evil: Four Views"<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Evil-W-Paul-Franks/dp/1501331124/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1541014427&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=w.+paul+frank&amp;&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=e58dfef6a1e03d8f332eb36bc5076821&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1501331124&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1501331124" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2019, Bloomsbury Academic will publish <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Pzw2F3" target="_blank">Explaining Evil: Four Views</a> </i>by W. Paul Franks. <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=193" target="_blank">Franks</a> is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tyndale University College, Canada. He has published in the <i>Heythrop Journal</i>, <i>Philosophia Christi</i>, <i>Religious Studies</i> and <i>Sophia</i>.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of<i> Explaining Evil:</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">In <i>Explaining Evil </i>four prominent philosophers, two theists and two non-theists, present their arguments for why evil exists. Taking a "position and response" format, in which one philosopher offers an account of evil and three others respond, this book guides readers through the advantages and limitations of various philosophical positions on evil, making it ideal for classroom use as well as individual study. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Divided into four chapters, <i>Explaining Evil </i>covers Theistic Libertarianism, Theistic Compatibilism, Atheistic Moral Realism and Atheistic Moral Non-realism. It features topics including free will, theism, atheism, goodness, Calvinism, evolutionary ethics, and pain, and demonstrates some of the dominant models of thinking within contemporary philosophy of religion and ethics. Written in accessible prose and with an approachable structure, this book provides a clear and useful overview of the central issues of the philosophy of evil.</blockquote></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FA5Lbo6lVHs" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/pw_cf7PMs7I" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/pw_cf7PMs7I/paul-franks-on-explaining-evil-four.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/12/paul-franks-on-explaining-evil-four.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-4025859595608608521Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:49:00 +00002018-12-23T17:12:09.206-08:00alvin plantingaepistemologyerik baldwinfeatured booksinterviewphilosophy of religionPlantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions (book)religious epistemologytyler mcnabbworldviewPlantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and Problems <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Plantingian-Religious-Epistemology-World-Religions/dp/1498552935/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1544512894&amp;sr=1-2&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=56d35b3eada8e3d01f21f8f02245c4d5&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1498552935&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1498552935" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Lexington Books released <a href="https://amzn.to/2LbbJc6" target="_blank"><i>Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and Problems</i></a> in the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series, by Erik Baldwin and Tyler Dalton McNabb. <a href="http://indiana.academia.edu/ErikBaldwin" target="_blank">Erik Baldwin</a> teaches at Indiana University, Northwest. <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=217" target="_blank">Tyler Dalton McNabb</a> is assistant professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498552936/Plantingian-Religious-Epistemology-and-World-Religions-Prospects-and-Problems" target="_blank">Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions</a>:&nbsp;</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">To what extent can non-Christian religious traditions utilize Plantinga’s epistemology? And, if there are believers from differing religious traditions that can rightfully utilize Plantinga’s religious epistemology, does this somehow prevent a Plantingian’s creedal-specific religious belief from being warranted? In order to answer these questions, Baldwin and McNabb first provide an introduction to Plantinga’s religious epistemology. Second, they explore the prospects and problems that members of non-Christian religions face when they attempt to utilize Plantingian religious epistemology. Finally, they sketch out possible approaches to holding that a Plantingian’s creedal-specific religious belief can be warranted, even given believers from other religious traditions who can also rightfully make full use of Plantinga’s religious epistemology.</blockquote>Enjoy these interview segments on Reformed Epistemology with Tyler McNabb from <a href="http://capturingchristianity.com/" target="_blank">Capturing Christianity</a>:<br /><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bkUU2VUod0U" width="460"></iframe> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8DlsoZZ5q68" width="460"></iframe> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-sMcuoJ_v4k" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/qlcTq6p7IIw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/qlcTq6p7IIw/plantingian-religious-epistemology-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/12/plantingian-religious-epistemology-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-7832827362547864127Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:56:00 +00002018-12-23T17:02:53.775-08:00epistemologyfeatured booksreligious epistemologyReligious Epistemology (book)tyler mcnabbNew "Religious Epistemology" Volume for Cambridge Elements Series<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Epistemology-Elements-Philosophy-Religion/dp/1108457533/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1544512574&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=609361fedf26c03c817e244f8ced7331&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1108457533&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a>In 2018, Cambridge University Press published <a href="https://amzn.to/2C20q3c" target="_blank"><i>Religious Epistemology,</i></a> in the Elements in the Philosophy of Religion series, by Tyler Dalton McNabb. <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=217" target="_blank">Tyler</a> is assistant professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;amazon ember&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Religious Epistemology:&nbsp;</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">If epistemology is roughly the study of knowledge, justification, warrant, and rationality, then religious epistemology is the study of how these epistemic concepts relate to religious belief and practice. This Element, while surveying various religious epistemologies, argues specifically for Plantingian religious epistemology. It makes the case for proper functionalism and Plantinga's AC models, while it also responds to debunking arguments informed by cognitive science of religion. It serves as a bridge between religious epistemology and natural theology.</blockquote>Enjoy "Philosophical Street Preaching" video from <a href="http://capturingchristianity.com/philosophical-street-preaching-tyler-mcnabb/" target="_blank">Capturing Christianity</a></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ll6KGt5kP-8" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/GyYRugevcos" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/GyYRugevcos/new-religious-epistemology-volume-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/new-religious-epistemology-volume-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-6478960299811205529Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:42:00 +00002019-01-01T14:43:52.462-08:00charles taliaferroconsciousnessfeatured booksmaterialismnaturalismNaturalness of Belief (book)paul copanThe Naturalness of Belief and Theism's Rationality<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Naturalness-Belief-Essays-Theisms-Rationality/dp/1498579906/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1546381630&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=naturalness+of+belief&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=3b3fdc519506fa6212479eba519bda89&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1498579906&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1498579906" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Lexington Books released <a href="https://amzn.to/2SwgIqW"><i>The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays on Theism's Rationality</i></a>, co-edited by <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=3">Paul Copan</a> and <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=26">Charles Taliaferro</a>. Paul Copan is professor and Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College.<br /><br /><i><b>Enjoy a 30% discount [expires: 9/1/2019] at <a href="https://rowman.com/lexington">Rowman.com/Lexington </a>by using LEX30AUTH18 when ordering</b></i>. <br /><br />From the publisher's description:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic world-view, in which such features are very natural, common sensical, and quite “at home” in a theistic framework.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Naturalness of Belief </i>begins with a naturalistic philosopher’s own perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters take a multifaceted approach in showing theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons for theism’s ability to account for consciousness, intentionality, beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and cultural reasons—in addition to the insights of the cognitive science of religion. </div></blockquote><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TO_9L8IYgE0" width="460"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kJHJsx9-_aI" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/3agYqcCn3k8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/3agYqcCn3k8/the-naturalness-of-belief-and-theisms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/the-naturalness-of-belief-and-theisms.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-3678093486430598608Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:59:00 +00002018-11-13T09:04:26.614-08:00analytic moral theologyanalytic theologyhumilityHumility and Human Flourishing (book)interviewmike austinmoral formationmoral knowledgemoral philosophyInterview with Michael Austin on Humility and Human Flourishing<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Humility-Human-Flourishing-Analytic-Theology/dp/019883022X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1542123380&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=humility+and+human+flourishing&amp;dpID=41wvKehjIhL&amp;preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&amp;dpSrc=srch&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=17901e691f0dea776aee624bd2fb3bab&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=019883022X&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=019883022X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/humility-and-human-flourishing-9780198830221?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank">Oxford University Press</a> is set to release&nbsp;<i><a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/humility-and-human-flourishing-study-in.html" target="_blank">Humility and Human Flourishing</a>&nbsp;</i>from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=106" target="_blank">Michael Austin</a>,&nbsp;<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=019883022X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />the newly elected President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society<i>. </i>In the below interview, Michael talks about his latest book and the importance of further philosophical and theological work to be done on humility as a virtue integral for human flourishing.<br /><br /><b><br /></b><b>What is Humility?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">In short, humility is “proper self-assessment” and “a self-lowering other-centeredness”. I analyze it in much more detail, of course. To do so, I employ Robert Adams’ notion of the modularity of virtue. So in terms of what will be true of the humble person, I discuss several cognitive, emotive, and active modules of humility, as follows:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">(C1) The humble person possesses self-knowledge with respect to his virtues, vices, and limitations, both personal and qua human person.<br />(C2) The humble person knows that God deserves the credit for her salvation, talents, abilities, accomplishments, and virtues.<br />(C3) The humble person believes that he ought to have a prima facie preference for the satisfaction of the interests of others over the satisfaction of his own interests.<br />(C4) The humble person will not conceive of human beings in a hierarchical manner in light of their equal inherent dignity and worth as image-bearers of God.<br />(C5) The humble person is properly concerned with how others perceive her.<br />(E1) The humble person has a prima facie preference for the satisfaction of the interests of others over his own.<br />(E2) The humble person is motivated to act by her love for God and for the sake of his kingdom.<br />(A1) The humble person will be disposed to obey God.<br />(A2) The humble person will be disposed to engage in self-sacrificial actions for the good of others.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">There is a lot here, but this is the account of the humble person that I offer as a Christological account of this moral virtue in such a person. The account is grounded in philosophical reflection and analysis, classic and contemporary theology and biblical studies, and some recent empirical work on this virtue. Reading the above, one might wonder about how I individuate humility from other virtues. For that, you’ll have to read the book!</blockquote><b>With that account in mind, how is a philosophical-theological account of Humility integral to an account of Human Flourishing?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">There are many ways, but one that stands out is that humility is a virtue that is central in and essential for rightly relating us to God, others, and to the good, the true, and the beautiful in creation and God’s kingdom. On a Christian account of human flourishing, humility is rational, benefits its possessor, and is conducive to individual and social flourishing. Given the historical skepticism of thinkers such as Hume and Nietzsche, and contemporary thinkers like Tara Smith, it is important to defend humility’s status as a moral virtue as part of a larger case for the rationality and goodness of the Christian moral life, insofar as humility is an essential aspect of such a life.</blockquote><b>How did this project come about for you?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I was reading Erik Wielenberg’s <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2TbBWed" target="_blank">Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe</a></i>, where he discusses a naturalistic account of the virtue of humility but also some of what C.S. Lewis thought about it. I thought Lewis was partially right, but realized that in both popular and scholarly literature, there are many inaccurate or truncated views about the nature of humility. So that got me into the topic and just 8 short years later my work resulted in this book!</blockquote><b>That's interesting. What did you discover about this topic that most intrigued you?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I constructed my initial account of the virtue, as I noted above, employing philosophy, theology, and biblical studies. I was fascinated to find that the operational definition of this trait that is used by many psychologists corresponds to my account. This helped my work substantially. For example, some of the ways in which I respond to Hume’s criticisms of humility’s status as a virtue make use of this excellent work in psychology on the virtue of humility.</blockquote><b>What have you found to be so distinct about a Christian account of humility?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">For me what is most distinct from a Christian perspective is that humility is primarily an interpersonal virtue. The current naturalistic versions of humility on offer construe it as a self-regarding virtue, and several Christian accounts follow suit. While humility does have self-regarding elements, including a knowledge of our limits and other kinds of self-knowledge, that is not the heart of the virtue. The picture we get from examining the Scriptures is that it is primarily other-regarding; it is about putting the interests of others ahead of one’s own, as the gospels and Philippians 2:1-11 make clear that Jesus himself habitually did. So my initial concerns about construing humility as merely self-knowledge, a knowledge of one’s limits, turned out to be confirmed by not only an in-depth scriptural analysis of humility, but of what many have thought about this trait over the centuries. This means that humility is a robustly action-guiding virtue, and is relevant to a variety of issues in applied ethics as well as spiritual formation. I discuss how this is so in the book.</blockquote><b>Your project is engaged in 'analytic moral theology.' What do you find distinct about that approach and why does it matter?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">It is distinct insofar as it involves approaching theological topics where moral concerns are central, with the ambitions of an analytic philosopher: prizing particular intellectual virtues, using the analytic style of discourse, seeking clarity, and using the other tools of analytic philosophy. This is not the only method that we should use, but it is one that brings some underutilized tools to bear on Christian moral theology. I discuss this in more detail in the book, and consider several objections to it. One desired result of this kind of work is that it helps us acquire moral knowledge that we can then apply as we see fit. In this sense, it is quite practical. In short, to seek to grow in and exemplify humility, it helps to know what it actually is!</blockquote><b>The book ends with a reflection on John 13. How is Jesus brilliant on 'humility and human flourishing.'</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">First and foremost, Jesus <i>is</i> brilliant on these topics because both his teaching and his life exemplify humility and human flourishing. In the foot-washing we see his brilliance and humility on display. He offers us a way out of our own crippling egoistic pride, not only by lighting the way, so to speak, but by enabling us to be transformed by his grace into the freedom that humility can deliver.</blockquote><b>Given the contours of your book, what do you recommend for further philosophical-theological work to be done by Christians in this area?</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">I think more work should be done on other virtues and a general Christian account of flourishing, by Christians. Then, we need to translate this scholarly work into more popular forms so that the picture of the good person and the good life that we see in Christ is made concrete, specific, and attainable by those who humbly depend on him for doing seeking to experience and embody God’s goodness. As <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=177" target="_blank">Dallas Willard</a> argued, we need a curriculum for Christlikeness. My view is that the evangelical segment of the Christian church in the United States is in desperate need of a moral reformation, with the pursuit of knowing and loving God at the center of our lives, in tandem with a true transformation of character. Otherwise, the movement will die out, and rightly so. It is up to Christian scholars to work in moral theology, offering insights related to both theory and practice. I’d like to see what happened with philosophy of religion and apologetics resources in the past 30 years also happen in the moral realm. We need popular-level resources for how to grow that are grounded in excellent scholarship, but also aimed at becoming, as C.S. Lewis said, “little Christs.”</blockquote><div><b>You can learn more about Michael Austin's work by visiting his personal </b><a href="http://www.michaelwaustin.com/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">website</a>.<b> Additionally, the Winter 2018 issue of <i><a href="http://www.epsociety.org/philchristi/" target="_blank">Philosophia Christi</a> </i>will&nbsp;feature a symposium discussion on Erik Wielenberg's "Godless Normative Realism" as an alternative to theistic accounts of moral realism, with responses from William Lane Craig, Tyler D. McNabb, Mark C. Murphy, Adam L. Johnson, and with a final reply by Wielenberg. <a href="https://www.donatesecure.net/eps/?did=1&amp;aid=8000022" target="_blank">Subscribe today</a>!</b></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/HO3CIAOW3jc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/HO3CIAOW3jc/interview-with-michael-austin-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/interview-with-michael-austin-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-1020298074010994828Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:03:00 +00002018-11-02T09:03:24.799-07:00Alasdair MacIntyreanscombedavid hornerethicsgettierkantianismmoral knowledgemoral philosophyutilitarianismvirtuevirtue ethicswittgensteinVirtue Ethics Turns 60: The Revolution Gets a Senior Discount<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xNCZMc3hZh0/W9xxQstk9oI/AAAAAAAAAFM/YHV6ibn2HuAgtZjr9CeEcUpEib0O6SMDwCLcBGAs/s1600/elizabeth-anscombe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xNCZMc3hZh0/W9xxQstk9oI/AAAAAAAAAFM/YHV6ibn2HuAgtZjr9CeEcUpEib0O6SMDwCLcBGAs/s200/elizabeth-anscombe.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>In the January 1958 issue of <i>Philosophy</i>, British philosopher G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret—“Elizabeth”) Anscombe (1919-2001) published one of the most important philosophical articles of the twentieth century, <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/6658637/mmp.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&amp;Expires=1541177213&amp;Signature=Dhei4TNHGMFmW6Z2DN54sLgcp6k%3D&amp;response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DModern_moral_philosophy.pdf" target="_blank">“Modern Moral Philosophy.”</a> (You may recognize Anscombe as the young philosopher who, ten years earlier, bested C. S. Lewis in a debate at the Oxford Socratic Club.)<br /><br />Other than Edmund Gettier’s 1963 piece in <i>Analysis</i>, <a href="http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~kleinsch/Gettier.pdf" target="_blank">“Is Justified True Belief Knowledge,”</a> arguably no single philosophy article has generated so much discussion and lasting influence. One legacy of “Modern Moral Philosophy” is Anscombe’s introduction of the term <i>consequentialism</i>, which has since become the standard way to describe ethical views like utilitarianism, according to which the moral value of an action is a function solely of the consequences produced by it. (<i>Brute facts</i> is another common philosophical term Anscombe introduced here.)<br /><br />But by far the most significant effect of “Modern Moral Philosophy” was its defining role in the birth of contemporary <i>virtue ethics</i>, as an alternative to the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches. (Alasdair MacIntyre’s <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2SEq6ZW" target="_blank">After Virtue</a></i>, in 1981, was the second key moment.)<br /><br />Of course, there’s actually nothing <i>new</i> about this movement. It’s a recovery—a return to the classical philosophical and theological tradition, especially (for Anscombe herself) to Aristotle. But in 1958 (and in the 1980’s, when I first studied moral philosophy), focusing on virtues and character was new and exciting—a revolution.<br /><br />It still is exciting and revolutionary, at least to me. But now, like other revolutions of that era, this one has reached senior status.<br /><br /><b>Is virtue ethics now old hat?&nbsp;</b><br /><br />Has virtue ethics become old and creaky? Irrelevant? Its energy spent or dwindling?<br /><br />Hardly. It’s gone mainstream.<br /><br />Moral philosophers and theologians are actively producing fruitful analyses of a whole range of virtues (and vices), and continue to do exciting work in moral psychology and action theory, neglected areas identified by Anscombe as needing philosophical attention. But taking virtue seriously has moved far beyond philosophy. It’s now mainstream in the field of psychology (see, for example, Peterson and Seligman’s massive <a href="https://amzn.to/2DhI5AV" target="_blank"><i>Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification</i>)</a> and education. In addition, talk of “human flourishing”—another of Anscombe’s distinctive emphases—now pervades all the disciplines.<br /><br />To some extent, these effects of “Modern Moral Philosophy” carry a bit of irony. As with her chief philosophical influence, Ludwig Wittgenstein (who called her “old man”), Anscombe’s writing was terse and, dare I say (with appropriately British understatement), “not always as clear as we might wish.” This is evident in the very different interpretations made of her arguments in the article, particularly concerning the notion of moral obligation.<br /><br />According to Anscombe,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">the concepts of obligation, and duty—<i>moral</i> obligation and <i>moral</i> duty, that is to say—and of what is <i>morally</i> right and wrong, and of the <i>moral</i> sense of “ought,” ought to be jettisoned if this is psychologically possible; because they are survivals, or derivatives from survivals, from an earlier conception of ethics which no longer generally survives, and are only harmful without it.&nbsp;</blockquote>And what is this earlier conception? “The answer is in history: between Aristotle and us came Christianity, with its <i>law</i> conception of ethics.”<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">To have a <i>law</i> conception of ethics is to hold that what is needed for conformity with the virtues . . . is required by divine law. Naturally it is not possible to have such a conception unless you believe in God as a lawgiver; like Jews, Stoics, and Christians. But if such a conception is dominant for many centuries, and then is given up, it is a natural result that the concepts of “obligation,” of being bound or required as by a law, should remain though they had lost their root.&nbsp;</blockquote>According to Anscombe, the “modern” ethical theories of both Kantianism and utilitarianism, with their talk of “moral obligation,” unwittingly presuppose what is only valid within the framework of divine law. But since “we” no longer believe in a divine lawgiver, she seems to be saying, we should give up on such language. Instead, we should simply focus, as did Aristotle, on virtues.<br /><br />This is exactly what modern virtue ethicists, following Anscombe, have done.<br /><br />The irony, however, is that Elizabeth Anscombe herself was a devout Christian, a strong believer in divine law and its expression in the natural law tradition. Indeed, she defended it in print and practiced it in her own life—from outspoken and controversial opposition to the bombing of Hiroshima, prior to writing “Modern Moral Philosophy,” to arrests and imprisonment for non-violent prolife activism as an elderly woman.<br /><br />So in 1958, was Anscombe arguing, as commonly interpreted, that virtue ethics replace all moral thought based on moral obligation? Or was she employing a kind of <i>modus tollens</i> argument, indirectly commending the importance of acknowledging a divine basis of obligation? (See Julia Driver’s <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anscombe/" target="_blank">article</a> on "Anscombe" in the <i>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i>.)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/hHODCXhxg68" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/hHODCXhxg68/virtue-ethics-turns-60-revolution-gets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Horner)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/virtue-ethics-turns-60-revolution-gets.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-3816735426323460689Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:46:00 +00002018-11-13T08:47:39.590-08:00analytic moral theologyethicsfeatured bookshuman flourishinghumilityHumility and Human Flourishing (book)mike austinmoral formationmoral knowledgeHumility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology <br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Humility-Human-Flourishing-Analytic-Theology/dp/019883022X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1542127387&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=humility+and+human+flourishing&amp;dpID=41wvKehjIhL&amp;preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&amp;dpSrc=srch&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=1829b9bbf5a7bdd7dade91ea4a93a0aa&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=019883022X&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=019883022X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Oxford University Press will publish <a href="https://amzn.to/2SJdGQH" target="_blank"><i>Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology</i></a> by Michael W. Austin, as part of the Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology series.<a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=106" target="_blank"> Austin</a> is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Eastern Kentucky University. His research and teaching interests focus on ethics, both normative and applied, with a particular focus on virtue ethics and character development. His publications include <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2JZ7YWE" target="_blank">Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family</a></i> (2007) and <i><a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=107" target="_blank">Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life</a> </i>(2012).<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Humility and Human Flourishing</i>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">In many Christian traditions, humility is often thought to play a central role in the moral and spiritual life. In this study of the moral virtue of humility, Michael W. Austin applies the methods of analytic philosophy to the field of moral theology in order analyze this virtue and its connections to human flourishing. The book is therefore best characterized as a work in analytic moral theology, and has two primary aims. First, it articulates and defends a particular Christian conception of the virtue of humility. It offers a Christological account of this trait, one that is grounded in the gospel accounts of the life of Christ as well as other key New Testament passages. The view of humility it offers and defends is biblically grounded, theologically informed, and philosophically sound. Second, the volume describes ways in which humility is constitutive of and conducive to human flourishing, Christianly understood. It argues that humility is rational, benefits its possessor, and contributes to its possessor being good qua human. Austin also examines several issues in applied virtue ethics. He considers some of the ways in which humility is relevant to several of the classic spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, silence, and service. He considers humility's relevance to issues related to religious pluralism and tolerance. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the relevance of humility for family life and how it can function as a virtue in the context of sport.</blockquote></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/nMC_g6K_up4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/nMC_g6K_up4/humility-and-human-flourishing-study-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/11/humility-and-human-flourishing-study-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-7941961606012166802Thu, 01 Nov 2018 02:16:00 +00002018-12-23T19:19:34.261-08:00featured booksjames davison hunternaturalismpatricia churchlandpaul nedeliskyScience and the Good (book)scientismJames Hunter on "The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality"<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Good-Foundations-Foundational-Questions/dp/0300196288/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545621118&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=science+and+the+good&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=3250cda6942a6693ee4c20dfb4d039ed&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0300196288&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0300196288" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Yale University Press will publish <a href="https://amzn.to/2V6QTPR" target="_blank"><i>Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality</i></a> by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky.<a href="http://iasculture.org/scholars/profiles/james-davison-hunter" target="_blank"> James Davison Hunter</a> is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia. <a href="https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/nedelisky/" target="_blank">Paul Nedelisky</a> is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and an associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Science and the Good:&nbsp;</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">In this brief, illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky show why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality—though repeated over the centuries by many thinkers from Jeremy Bentham to E.O. Wilson—are doomed to fail. Science, they argue, cannot tell us how we should live or why we should be good and not evil, and this failure is not because of narrowness or shallowness but a fundamental limitation on the nature of scientific reasoning. </blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Yet recently, we have seen an active effort to provide scientifically based answers to moral questions, led by such figures as Patricia Churchland and Joshua Greene. Having been unable, however, to find a single instance in which science resolves a moral question—or even provides significant evidence toward resolving one—the new scientists of morality have taken a radical and unprecedented step. Rather than admit their research program’s failure, they have interpreted that failure to mean that morality, because it is not amenable to scientific study, does not exist. Concise and rigorously argued, this book is a major critique of half-baked ideas that have obtained a wholly unwarranted influence in today’s public discourse.</blockquote></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YIcGolxYFwY" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/9huVx_sQZcs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/9huVx_sQZcs/james-hunter-on-tragic-quest-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/10/james-hunter-on-tragic-quest-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-3894047725746807303Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:54:00 +00002018-12-23T17:57:20.386-08:00closer to truthepistemologyinterviewrobert audiRobert Audi on How We Know What We KnowFrom a <a href="https://www.closertotruth.com/" target="_blank">"Closer to Truth"</a> interview, University of Notre Dame's <a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/robert-audi/" target="_blank">Robert Audi</a> offers a handy snapshot of the work of epistemology<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOfU1IlSUgw" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/xceiCPuIoL0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/xceiCPuIoL0/robert-audi-on-how-we-know-what-we-know.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/10/robert-audi-on-how-we-know-what-we-know.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-3429342527237828882Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:50:00 +00002018-12-23T16:54:05.513-08:00aquinasbarthfeatured booksGod and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth (book)tyler wittmanGod and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Theology-Thomas-Aquinas-Barth/dp/110847067X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545233881&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=tyler+wittman&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=18236fe456de0af0d3adb46ade24adfd&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=110847067X&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=110847067X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Cambridge Press will publish <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2EDPbAq" target="_blank">God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth</a> </i>by<a href="http://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/tyler-r-wittman/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Tyler R. Wittman</a>. Wittman is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. His research and writing concentrates on issues surrounding the theology of God's perfections, the Trinity, and Christology. His articles have appeared in <i>International Journal of Systematic Theology, Modern Theology, and Pro Ecclesia</i>. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth:&nbsp;</i><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="text-align: justify;">The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Do0yNksUUAA2YYi.jpg:large" target="_blank">20% discount coupon from the publisher</a>, valid through October 3, 2019!&nbsp; </b></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/69RupFiNOBg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/69RupFiNOBg/god-and-creation-in-theology-of-thomas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/10/god-and-creation-in-theology-of-thomas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-2250428269162841975Sun, 23 Sep 2018 19:06:00 +00002018-12-23T18:34:40.881-08:00abraham kuyperbonhoefferbrant m. himesfeatured booksFor a Better Worldliness (book)moral formationspiritual formationAbraham Kuyper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Discipleship for the Common Good <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Better-Worldliness-Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Discipleship/dp/1532638450/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1541203646&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=for+a+better+worldliness&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=240f976600b017dfbfdeb810e97df5e3&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1532638450&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1532638450" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Pickwick Publications released <a href="https://amzn.to/2qterAo" target="_blank"><i>For a Better Worldliness: Abraham Kuyper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Discipleship for the Common Good</i></a> by Brant M. Himes. <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQq0iUWT0cUeyM0Dyj2KGf4wSk_xALLb-KBdgfRG_4er-in8llzMqe2htULDUy1UzlVKABTKGmosleI/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000&amp;slide=id.p" target="_blank">Himes</a> is Assistant Professor of Humanities for Los Angeles Pacific University, part of the Azusa Pacific University system. He is managing editor for the theological journal <i>Resonance</i>.<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>For a Better Worldliness:&nbsp;</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>For a Better Worldliness</i> is not only a statement of Abraham Kuyper’s and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological concept and historical practice of discipleship. It is also—and perhaps more importantly—a call to engage in the fullness of the Christian life here and now. While this book goes to great efforts to establish sound historical and theological insights specifically in regards to Kuyper and Bonhoeffer, there is a strong underlying current that these particular insights deeply matter to the life of discipleship in the world today. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">History shows us that discipleship is not a singular journey; because of Jesus Christ it is not a description of one set path with one set of guidelines. A disciple can be a prime minister who unabashedly and successfully campaigned on his Calvinistic principles, just as he can be a participant in a <i>coup d’état</i> launched against a tyrant, leading to the disciple’s own imprisonment and death. Jesus Christ calls—whether to the height of political office, or to the dank prison cell, or (more likely for us) to somewhere in between.</blockquote></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/0zzqmlsiwXY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/0zzqmlsiwXY/abraham-kuyper-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/09/abraham-kuyper-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-6974053875285939095Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:08:00 +00002018-09-21T12:35:31.799-07:00Authentically Emergent (book)Holy SpiritIn Search of Moral Knowledge (book)naturalismNaturalism and our Knowledge of Reality (book)pneumatologyr. scott smithworldview integrationScott Smith: Christian Philosophers Should Care about Naturalism's Effect on the ChurchLongtime EPS member and <i><a href="http://www.epsociety.org/philchristi/default.asp" target="_blank">Philosophia Christi</a></i>&nbsp;contributor, <a href="https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/scott-smith" target="_blank">Biola's Scott Smith</a>, applies his philosophical arguments against naturalism and Christian physicalism to discerning the effects of naturalism on the church. See his recently released video:<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZiZBWI-cpaU" width="460"></iframe> <br /><br />Moreover, in his Summer 2018 release of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://amzn.to/2QQaMZu" target="_blank">Authentically Emergent</a></i>, not only does Smith provide an updated response to 'emergent church' advocates and their progressive Christianity but he offers a word to fellow conservative evangelicals in the West, especially in the U.S.: be alert to how we have become 'naturalized' or 'de-supernaturalized' in our thinking and practices.<br /><br />Scott's various academic books have sought to address the problems of naturalism on knowledge, and especially moral knowledge (see, for example, <i><a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2014/08/interview-with-r-scott-smith-in-search.html" target="_blank">In Search of Moral Knowledge</a>; <a href="https://amzn.to/2QOP6g4" target="_blank">Naturalism and our Knowledge of Reality</a></i>).<br /><br />Writing recently at his <a href="https://rscottsmithphd.com/2018/08/17/are-the-emergents-yesterdays-news-part-1/" target="_blank">website</a> about <i>Authentically Emergent </i>and his response to emergent church views, Smith <a href="https://rscottsmithphd.com/2018/09/18/why-read-authentically-emergent-part-2-of-a-series/" target="_blank">writes</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Importantly, I think they [emergent church advocates] miss the mark in two subtle, yet deeply important ways: first, I think they do not realize a root problem in all too many conservative churches. I think that these churches have been unwittingly, yet deeply, shaped by naturalism, in the sense that, practically, God has become irrelevant for their lives in various ways and to various, yet significant, extents. That means that in those regards, they live in the “flesh” – their own sinful propensities. This can be described as a practical atheism. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">So, one thing I do [in <i>Authentically Emergent</i>] is show how many historical, cultural, philosophical, scientific, and other factors have shaped Christians in the west, and the US In particular, so that in various ways many Christians don’t really expect God to show up in their lives – in many ways, such faith has been de-supernaturalized. But, second, and ironically, I think that McLaren, et al. don’t realize that they are advocating a kind of Christianity that also has been deeply naturalized. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Instead, I argue that that the real solution both groups need is to embrace the fullness of Christ, in fullness of Spirit and truth, as Paul describes in Ephesians. That way, Jesus Himself can be powerfully manifested in Christians’ lives, which is so desperately needed today.</blockquote>The importance for all Christians to take seriously the empowering present of the Spirit has been an important theme and motivation for Scott Smith's philosophical and theological work. In a 2016 <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/evangelicalpulpit/2016/12/presence-power-lord/" target="_blank">article</a> he wrote:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Surely God is at work doing many things in the United States, and evangelicals have been trying to hold to the doctrinal truths of Christianity. Moreover, Christians are to be marked by God’s presence and power. Nevertheless, it seems that, overall, evangelicals do not have much influence, especially given the promised power of the gospel and the risen Lord Jesus, and His promised presence. So, where is the power and presence of the Lord? &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">With this in mind, I have been impressed by how often Paul mentions the fullness of the Lord in his letter to the Ephesians. I think this emphasis is not minor; rather, it is one of vital importance to the Christian life. But, I also think too many Christians, particularly in the states, do not really appreciate it. Paul explains how we, even in the increasingly secular west, can know and experience God’s amazing power and presence.</blockquote>Writing in a <a href="https://rscottsmithphd.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pages-from-Contents-CSR-Volume-47-Issue-1.pdf" target="_blank">2017 issue of the <i>Christian Scholar's Review</i></a>&nbsp;[CSR], Smith calls Christian scholars to embrace a way of doing scholarship, teaching and worldview integration that is attuned to the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit in light of how academic disciplines [and often Christian practice toward those disciplines] have become naturalized.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The goal of this paper is to help flesh out more contours of a biblical theology of the Spirit, with a view toward the roles and work of the Spirit in integration, teaching, scholarship, and formation in Christian higher education. I will start with a development of that model. Then, I will shift to survey, as well as assess, how our understanding of the Spirit’s role in our profession has been shaped by the influences of modernity and postmodernity. Finally, I will apply this model to real-life issues and case studies, to help show how it works in practice.</blockquote>For Scott Smith, simply being a Christian who does excellent philosophical work is not sufficient for producing work that is full of life [whether for the academy or the church or wider culture].<br /><br />Scott's own experience models the power of learning to abide in Jesus as the fount of all life, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. And it is not about merely 'getting' something from Jesus via the Holy Spirit (e.g., insights, or specific knowledge of a problem] or instrumentalizing communion with Him for the sake of scholarship Scott cautions in his 2017 CSR article, <a href="https://rscottsmithphd.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pages-from-Contents-CSR-Volume-47-Issue-1.pdf" target="_blank">"Toward a More Biblical (and Pneumatological) Model for Integration, Teaching, and Scholarship"</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">If we do not go to [God], on his terms, for his insight and wisdom, including for what is not given directly in Scripture, then a danger of idolatry looms. For I think it would be all too easy to act (even unconsciously) as though we are our own god. How? Since Scripture does not give us detailed knowledge about all the various disciplines, then just like Adam and Eve in Gen. 3:5, we too would be tempted to think we could de- fine reality in all these disciplines, without having to depend utterly upon, and listen closely to, the voice of the Lord. That means that at least to some extent, we would be elevating their own hearts and minds over his, which is our default sinful mindset, an attitude that opens us up to the suggestions from Satan and cannot please God. But, if we do seek and abide in him in the ways Scripture indicates, then I think there is a rich, bountiful treasure we can receive from the Lord as we allow him to mentor us in our disciplines in evangelical higher education.</blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/3mNsuF3K8p8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/3mNsuF3K8p8/scott-smith-christian-philosophers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/09/scott-smith-christian-philosophers.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-8227938748005990767Sat, 01 Sep 2018 02:38:00 +00002018-12-23T19:41:29.461-08:00corruptionevilfeatured booksInstitutional Corruption (book)seumas millerInstitutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Institutional-Corruption-Study-Applied-Philosophy/dp/0521689635/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1517208812&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=9780521689632&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=703f8211642e65a08f97900e8581f3b4&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0521689635&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0521689635" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Cambridge University Press will publish <a href="http://amzn.to/2DGOkLm" target="_blank"><i>Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy</i></a>by Seumas Miller. <a href="http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/member/seumas_miller/" target="_blank">Miller</a> has research appointments at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands, and the University of Oxford. His publications include <i>The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions</i> (Cambridge, 2010), <i>Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force</i> (2016), and <i>Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing</i> (2016).<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Institutional Corruption:</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explores a variety of actual and potential anti-corruption measures. The result is a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed work on institutional corruption and how to combat it. Part I defines the key concepts of corruption, power, collective responsibility, bribery, abuse of authority and nepotism; Part II discusses anti-corruption and integrity systems, corruption investigations and whistle-blowing; and Part III focuses on corruption and anti-corruption in specific institutional settings, namely policing, finance, business and government. Integrating theory with practical approaches, this book will be important for those interested in the philosophy and ethics of corruption as well as for those who work to combat it.</blockquote></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/75NgKYZbTuQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/75NgKYZbTuQ/institutional-corruption-study-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/08/institutional-corruption-study-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-6094827109779175743Sat, 18 Aug 2018 03:15:00 +00002018-08-19T22:33:44.198-07:00angus mengueBlackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (book)brandon rickabaugheric olsongary habermasinterviewjonathan loosejp morelandkevin corcorannancey murphyrichard swinburneYouTube Channel Launches for The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Companion-Substance-Companions-Philosophy/dp/1119375266/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1534718561&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=companion+to+substance+dualism&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=b2f400751b3909faa4324c868169f25e&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1119375266&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><span style="color: red;">For a limited time, enjoy a 20% discount on the hardcover version of <a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/02/the-blackwell-companion-to-substance.html" target="_blank"><i>The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism</i></a> [until September 31, 2018, go to <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Blackwell+Companion+to+Substance+Dualism-p-9781119375265" target="_blank">Wiley.com</a>, and enter code CSD19 in check-out, or purchase at <a href="https://amzn.to/2whlVJ4" target="_blank">Amazon</a> for same discount (as of today)].</span><br /><br />To learn more about this significant volume, browse the <a href="https://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/66/11193752/1119375266-15.pdf" target="_blank">Table of Contents</a>, read the <a href="https://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/66/11193752/1119375266-10.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction</a>, enjoy the <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/store/default.asp?mode=category&amp;did=2&amp;aid=8000063" target="_blank">Summer 2018</a> issue of <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/philchristi/" target="_blank"><i>Philosophia Christi</i></a> [which includes many of the same <i><a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/02/the-blackwell-companion-to-substance.html" target="_blank">Companion</a> </i>contributors], and enjoy a number of engaging <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkX01A8oehDa2O0lL19YYoA/videos" target="_blank">video interviews</a> with contributors to <i><a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/02/the-blackwell-companion-to-substance.html" target="_blank">The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism</a> </i>[recorded in late 2017 at the EPS conference in Providence, Rhode Island].<br /><br />Interviewees include <a href="https://calvin.edu/directory/people/kevin-corcoran" target="_blank">Kevin Corcoran</a>, <a href="http://www.garyhabermas.com/" target="_blank">GaryHabermas</a>, <a href="http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/staff/dr-jonathan-loose" target="_blank">Jonathan Loose</a>, <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=43" target="_blank">Angus Menuge</a>, <a href="http://www.jpmoreland.com/" target="_blank">J. P. Moreland</a>, <a href="https://www.fuller.edu/faculty/nancey-murphy/" target="_blank">Nancey Murphy</a>, <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/eolson" target="_blank">Eric Olson</a>, <a href="https://www.brandonrickabaugh.com/" target="_blank">Brandon Rickabaugh</a>, and <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie0087/" target="_blank">Richard Swinburne</a>. <br /><br />In addition, despite ill health, <a href="http://blog.epsociety.org/2017/12/in-memoriam-lynne-rudder-baker-1944-2017.html" target="_blank">Lynne Rudder Baker</a> kindly invited Jonathan Loose to her home prior to the conference and gave, according to Loose, what turned out probably to be her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkX01A8oehDa2O0lL19YYoA/search?query=lynne+baker" target="_blank">last interview</a> on her work.<br /><br /><iframe width="460" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8yacn7d1HRI" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /> <iframe width="460" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hRIcjea8Wtw" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Subscribe directly to the <a href="https://bit.ly/2HTf7Ju" target="_blank">“Mind Matters”</a> channel on YouTube and follow Twitter announcements from @<a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanjloose" target="_blank">jonathanjloose</a> about new video interviews to be released! <br /><i></i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><a href="http://epsociety.org/support/" target="_blank">Please support the EPS</a> to expand its reach, support its members, and be a credible presence of Christ-shaped philosophical interests in the academy and into the wider culture! Right now, there couldn’t be a better time to multiply your support of the EPS in 2018 light of a <u>$25,000 </u>matching grant from an anonymous donor. Help us reach and exceed our $50,000 goal!! </i></b></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/hg6xKq1CSxw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/hg6xKq1CSxw/youtube-channel-launches-for-blackwell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/08/youtube-channel-launches-for-blackwell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-3464127631183292055Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:48:00 +00002018-08-19T16:52:25.045-07:00consciousnessConsciousness and the Ontology of Properties (book)dualismfeatured booksmihretu gutaontologyphilosophical anthropologysubstanceConsciousness and the Ontology of Properties <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Ontology-Properties-Mihretu-Guta/dp/1138097861/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=1534007542&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=d17da05e4c6dea51e5647c486b6c95ea&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1138097861&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1138097861" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In July 2018, Routledge published <a href="https://amzn.to/2vzjiTI" target="_blank"><i>Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties</i></a>, edited by Mihretu P. Guta.&nbsp; Guta teaches philosophy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at <a href="https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/mihretu-guta" target="_blank">Biola University </a>and at <a href="https://www.apu.edu/theology/faculty/mguta/" target="_blank">Azusa Pacific University</a>, California, and is currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Metaphysics of Substance and Personhood: A Non-Theory-Laden Approach."<br /><br />From the publishers description of <a href="https://amzn.to/2MDEfpW" target="_blank"><i>Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties</i></a>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">This book aims to show the centrality of a proper ontology of properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of our experience―such as how a strawberry tastes―arise from brain states? More recently, philosophers have incorporated what seems like promising empirical research from neuroscience and cognitive psychology in an attempt to bridge the gap between measurable mental states on the one hand, and phenomenal qualities on the other. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In <a href="https://amzn.to/2wfEXj5" target="_blank"><i>Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties</i></a>, many of the leading philosophers working on this issue, as well as a few emerging scholars, have written 14 new essays on this problem. The essays address topics as diverse as substance dualism, mental causation, the metaphysics of artificial intelligence, the logic of conceivability, constitution, extended minds, the emergence of consciousness, and neuroscience and the unity and neural correlates of consciousness, but are nonetheless unified in a collective objective: the need for a proper ontology of properties to understand the hard problem of consciousness, both on non-empirical and empirical grounds.</blockquote></div><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eO7f_rJpd7A" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/vjpjAij4cA8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/vjpjAij4cA8/consciousness-and-ontology-of-properties.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/08/consciousness-and-ontology-of-properties.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-7531408553161041727Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:15:00 +00002018-12-23T19:25:00.617-08:00beautydc schindlerfeatured booksgoodnessiris murdochloveLove and the Postmodern Predicament (book)philosophical anthropologypostmoderntheology anthropologytruthD. C. Schindler on Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Postmodern-Predicament-Rediscovering-Goodness/dp/1532648731/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=eee66e6fb3ad9d132e063cf3048dc170&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1532648731&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1532648731" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Cascade Books released <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ehu6L0" target="_blank"><i>Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth</i></a>by D. C. Schindler, as Book 28 in their <a href="https://wipfandstock.com/catalog/series/view/id/66/?dir=asc&amp;order=d_publication_date#/page/1" target="_blank">Veritas series</a>.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.johnpaulii.edu/academics/faculty/d-c-schindler" target="_blank">D. C. Schindler</a> is Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at The John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of <i>The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns </i>(2013).<br /><br />From the publisher's description of <i>Love and the Postmodern Predicament</i>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of "reality" is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim it makes on us, a claim that Iris Murdoch once described as the essence of love. In response to this postmodern predicament, the present book aims to draw on the classical philosophical tradition in order to articulate a robust philosophical anthropology, and a new appreciation of the importance of the "transcendental properties" of being: beauty, goodness, and truth. The book begins with a reflection on the importance of metaphysics in our contemporary setting, and then presents the human person's relation to the world under the signs of the transcendentals: beauty is the gracious invitation into reality, goodness is the self-gift of freedom in response to this invitation, and truth is the consummation of our relation to the real in knowledge. The book culminates in an argument for why love is ultimately a matter of being, and why metaphysical reason is indispensable in faith.</blockquote></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ei6eRK28oac" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/ap1Z5pcK17k" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/ap1Z5pcK17k/d-c-schindler-on-rediscovering-real-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/07/d-c-schindler-on-rediscovering-real-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-8542781040601904035Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:56:00 +00002018-07-02T07:01:54.146-07:00analytic philosophyanalytic theologyatonementfeatured booksphilosophical theologyphilosophy of religionwilliam lane craigWilliam Lane Craig on "The Atonement"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5WSsAL2yi_E/WzotXTiv4_I/AAAAAAAAARI/U-zGUprEFq8RwTTMVTUtE8sNorcJ0y4bQCLcBGAs/s1600/9781108457408.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5WSsAL2yi_E/WzotXTiv4_I/AAAAAAAAARI/U-zGUprEFq8RwTTMVTUtE8sNorcJ0y4bQCLcBGAs/s1600/9781108457408.jpg" /></a></div>In June 2018, Cambridge University Press released <a href="https://amzn.to/2tIUpDQ" target="_blank"><i>The Atonement</i></a> by William Lane Craig, as part of its new <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/elements-in-the-philosophy-of-religion/6DB49122CD407CF5E4CB65DE7BCC052E" target="_blank">"Elements in the Philosophy of Religion"</a> series. <a href="http://www.epsociety.org/library/authors.asp?mode=profile&amp;pid=34" target="_blank">William Lane Craig</a> is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology, a former President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, and founder of <a href="http://reasonablefaith.org/">ReasonableFaith.org</a>. <br /><br />From the&nbsp; abstract of <i>The Atonement</i>: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>The Atonement</i> offers in a concise compass an inter-disciplinary approach to the complex doctrine of the atonement, drawing upon biblical studies, church history, and analytic philosophy. Divided into three parts, the book first treats the biblical basis of the doctrine of the atonement, an aspect of the doctrine not often taken with sufficient seriousness by contemporary Christian philosophers writing on the subject. The second part highlights some of the principal alternative theories of the atonement offered in the pre-modern era, with a view to accurately expositing these often misunderstood theories. Finally part three, drawing upon insights from the philosophy of law, defends a multi-faceted atonement theory which features penal substitution as a central element. By employing distinctions found in legal thought often overlooked in philosophical treatments of atonement, the author seeks to offer a philosophically coherent account of Christ's atonement that connects closely with the biblical doctrine of forensic justification. </blockquote>Enjoy a <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/FB45E932C6907E1DCEE99E02BA84B16B/9781108457408AR.pdf/atonement.pdf" target="_blank">free sample</a> of the book provided by Cambridge University Press.<br /><br />For an example of Craig's recent presentations on the doctrine of the atonement, see this video clip of Craig's address for the 2018 Toronto Christian Scholar Symposium:<br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wiMLspnG0m4" width="460"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/A1uLhHWFSCo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/A1uLhHWFSCo/william-lane-craig-on-atonement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/06/william-lane-craig-on-atonement.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-6783482576998278223Thu, 31 May 2018 13:13:00 +00002019-01-29T06:16:15.555-08:00and God (book)Beliefdani rabinowitzepistemologyfeatured booksjohn hawthorneKnowledgematthew bentonreligious epistemologyKnowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Belief-God-Religious-Epistemology/dp/0198798709/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0198798709&amp;pd_rd_r=a5d16877-0716-11e9-94de-09435340c2d6&amp;pd_rd_w=KEYf3&amp;pd_rd_wg=nfmYJ&amp;pf_rd_p=7d5d9c3c-5e01-44ac-97fd-261afd40b865&amp;pf_rd_r=DEG5WY62EWW07Q54W8T6&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=DEG5WY62EWW07Q54W8T6&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;linkId=24ae0675089ee2ea4f352f5a7e4ea95b&amp;language=en_US" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0198798709&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=evangephilo02-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0198798709" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />In 2018, Oxford University Press published <a href="https://amzn.to/2RgjkvE"><i>Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology</i></a>, edited by Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne and Dani Rabinowitz. <a href="http://spu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-sciences/philosophy/faculty-staff/benton-matthew">Matthew A. Benton</a> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/phil/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1047479">John Hawthorne</a> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is currently a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance LLP.<br /><br />From the publishers description of <i>Knowledge, Belief, and God</i>:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Investigations into contextualist and pragmatic dimensions of knowledge suggest radically new ways of meeting skeptical challenges and of understanding the relation between the epistemological and practical environment. New insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence all have a potentially revolutionary effect on how we understand our epistemological place in the world. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>Knowledge, Belief, and God</i> incorporates these myriad new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, breadth, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. They pose original questions and shed new light on long-standing issues in religious epistemology; and these developments will in turn generate contributions to epistemology itself, since religious belief provides a vital testing ground for recent epistemological ideas.</blockquote></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpsBlog/~4/VmHZvVggScw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EpsBlog/~3/VmHZvVggScw/knowledge-belief-and-god-new-insights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Joe Gorra)0http://blog.epsociety.org/2018/05/knowledge-belief-and-god-new-insights.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305233387858938493.post-8600451757659160599Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:40:00 +00002018-12-23T17:41:17.299-08:00consciousnessdc schindlerintentionalityjohn betzontologyphilosophical anthropologytheological anthropologyIntentionality and the Transcendent Ends of Consciousness<div class="style-scope ytd-expander" id="content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" id="description" slot="content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 615px; padding: 0px;"><yt-formatted-string class="content style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" split-lines="" style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://theology.nd.edu/people/john-betz/" target="_blank">John Betz</a>, Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and <a href="https://www.johnpaulii.edu/academics/faculty/d-c-schindler" target="_blank">D. C. Schindler</a>, Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute, present on "Intentionality and the Transcendent Ends of Consciousness" at the colloquium <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT1qnl2lRN4&amp;list=PLajs77Y9ipluZ2zlrC4Ru9LGfEWcPrGm-" target="_blank">“Mind, Soul, World: Consciousness in Nature,”</a> hosted by the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS). 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